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Faculty in the News

Ohio State law professors are sought out for their expertise by a number of news media outlets and blogs with large audiences. Topics range from the death penalty to voter ID laws to artificial insemination – and our faculty members’ quotes and analysis can be found everywhere from small-town and national newspapers to radio broadcasts to cable news programs. The following is a selection of media coverage for Moritz College of Law faculty.

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Professor Gregory A. Caldeira's 2009 journal article “Measuring Policy Content on the U.S. Supreme Court,” was cited in an opinion piece that appeared in The New York Times this month discussing the illusion of a liberal supreme court.

Professor Michelle Alexander was cited in a Commentary Magazine article on politics, public safety, and crime.

"According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2,805 black males over the age of 18, out of every 100,000 in the national population, were imprisoned in a federal or state facility in 2013. Measured the same way, comparable numbers for Hispanic and non-Hispanic white males were 1,134 and 466, respectively. Such disparities are the basis of Ohio State law professor Michelle Alexander’s argument that in 'an era of colorblindness,' we have come to “use our criminal-justice system to associate criminality with people of color and then engage in the prejudiced practices we supposedly left behind.”

Professor Douglas A. Berman was quoted in an article on AllGov Californiadiscussing the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings in a number of recent cases, including one in which they upheld Oklahoma's right to execute death row prisoners using a controversial combination of lethal injection drugs.

Professor Douglas A. Berman was quoted in a Bloomberg Business article on the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruing in Glossip v. Gross, where the court upheld Oklahoma's use of the sedative midazolam in lethal injections.

"Seven of the nine standing Supreme Court justices—excluding Justices Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who signed on to his dissent—'apparently do not question the death penalty's essential constitutionality,'" Berman said.

Professor Douglas A. Berman was mentioned in an editorial piece in The Independent discussing U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to upholding the state of Oklahoma's use of the lethal injection drug midazolam.

Professor Douglas A. Berman was quoted in an article on the Rapid News Network discussing the effect a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld Oklahoma's use of the sedative midazolam in lethal injections, could have on California.

Professor Douglas A. Berman was quoted in an article for Time on the search for more-effective lethal-injection drugs and execution methods following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that Oklahoma’s use of midazolam during lethal injections did not violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

“I think this ruling will make states feel a little more comfortable moving forward with different drugs and different methods,” Berman said. "But states will still have their own challenges securing the drug, even though the constitutional issue is out of the way.”

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